Timeline for Why isn't atmega8 using the internal oscillator at 8MHz by default?
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| Jul 13, 2017 at 4:46 | vote | accept | sitilge | ||
| Jun 15, 2017 at 9:57 | comment | added | sitilge | @Bimpelrekkie whooops, it's midnight + full moon now. Should expect minutes to be a bit longer. Thanks. | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 9:54 | comment | added | Bimpelrekkie | Because the internal oscillator is very unpredictable, its frequency depends on supply voltage, temperature, aging, phase of the moon etc. You can program the chip to use that internal oscillator by default though. It is more common to use an external crystal to make the clock. Crystals are much, much better at keeping to the same frequency. Then if you program the chip to wait for one minute, it will actually wait for one minute and not 50 or 80 seconds depending on whatever. | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 9:49 | comment | added | G36 | electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/241575/… | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 9:48 | answer | added | Silvan Zuppiger | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 9:42 | history | asked | sitilge | CC BY-SA 3.0 |